ghostwriterwitch
Recent works
-
Polyphon by ghostwriterwitch
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir, Westworld (TV)
04 Mar 2023
Tags
Summary
The music box whirrs, and the song begins again.
-
This Much Delicious by elseifstars, ghostwriterwitch
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Trilogy | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
02 Aug 2021
Tags
Summary
“So like. Does that make this...TENDON loving care?”
“I can still drain all of your blood and kill you.”
Harrow’s hungry; Gideon helps. The not!Twilight au where everything is bones and no one sparkles.
Recent bookmarks
-
the family amidala by dirgewithoutmusic for randomthingsthatilike123
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types
15 Feb 2016
Tags
Summary
Padme lives. She runs.
--
Leia is growing in fits and spurts, eating greedily and crying loudly. She stays in a sling on Padme’s chest when they move, Luke held snug in a sling around Obi Wan’s. Luke gets a whole head of thick brown hair while Leia’s is still patchy and bald, but he never matches his sister’s powerful lungs.
When Padme had been sitting in her high senatorial apartment on Corsucant, holding Anakin’s sweaty hand, she had never imagined she’d be murmuring desperately soothing noises to her fussy daughter while she shot around a corner at stormtroopers, while R2D2 meddles with a ship’s blast doors behind her.
Luke starts teething on a hot jungle planet where they hunker down for three weeks, sleeping in an abandoned old temple and catching the local wildlife for dinner. Leia takes her first steps in the belly of a Corellian freighter they’ve stowed away on. She wobbles between Padme’s outstretched hands and Obi Wan’s knees and boxes of smuggled luxuries. When she falls down, Obi Wan surges forward, heart in his throat, but Leia laughs.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 6,829
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 13
- Comments:
- 305
- Kudos:
- 8,284
- Bookmarks:
- 2,697
- Hits:
- 58,807
Bookmarked by ghostwriterwitch
14 May 2026
-
all things to all people all of the time by dirgewithoutmusic
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Iron Man (Movies), Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe
26 Apr 2014
Tags
Summary
The Winter Soldier did not waste bullets, time, or death. Natasha told herself that and fingered her scar.
The Winter Soldier did not leave witnesses, but he had left her by that cliff outside of Odessa. Was Natasha an exception? Or did she not count as a witness? Had he looked at her and seen the same black button eyes reflected back at him, the on/off switch, the tick of clockwork?
Years later, Natasha watched the Soldier slam into the freeway concrete. The bullet holes in her abdomen had healed, and she knew this thing did not consider itself a person.
They were animate objects, both of them, useless in the witness stand. He hadn’t pulled the car transmission out, after all, hadn’t stripped the cell phone in the victim’s pocket, or shot up the rocks at the side of that road outside Odessa. He hadn’t shot her. He had left her there, breathing, and the Winter Soldier didn’t leave witnesses.
On cold nights, Natasha dreamed of ballerinas: porcelain, exquisite, their ribs jutting out stark under their skin.
(A Natasha Romanoff character focus)
Series
- Part 2 of bringing the war home
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 6,163
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 85
- Kudos:
- 1,565
- Bookmarks:
- 248
- Hits:
- 22,720
Bookmarked by ghostwriterwitch
14 May 2026
-
a life of smoke and silvered glass by dirgewithoutmusic
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
10 Jul 2017
Tags
Summary
Albus Dumbledore rose to his feet, smiling at them in that way of his, like he knew something you didn't and he was proud of you for it. "Friends," he began.
The door thudded open and the Marauders burst in, late and pink-cheeked with cold. The headmaster smiled at them, too, and Sirius gave a cheery little salute back.
Severus sunk lower in his chair, staring witheringly over his butterbeer. "You told Potter about it, too?"
"He might as well put all that energy to good use," said Lily. "And, to be accurate, I told Remus."
"But Potter, really?" said Severus.
"He and Black cooked up a jinx that gives you a boil every time you say a slur to a Muggleborn," said Lily. "It was either invite them to Alice's war club or bake them cookies, and I know where my skills lie."
Severus sniffed. "Don't come crying to me if he tugs your pigtails."
"Come crying to me if he pulls yours, and I'll deck him," said Lily.
(Slight AU in which Severus apologizes, tries harder, and stays friends with Lily)
Series
- Part 15 of boy with a scar
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 27,794
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 35
- Comments:
- 1,250
- Kudos:
- 14,892
- Bookmarks:
- 3,681
- Hits:
- 203,697
Bookmarked by ghostwriterwitch
13 May 2026
-
Tags
Summary
Harriet Lily Potter was left on the doorstep of 4 Privet Drive. They called her ugly and gave her Dudley's hand-me-downs. They would tell people that she went to a boarding school for troubled young women. Dudley still offered to stick her head in toilets, and she still learned to snap back, "Really, Duds? The poor toilet's never had anything as nasty as your head down it, it might hurt it," and run.
Harry was the kind of girl who came home with scabby knees, who snuck the kitchen shears in the dead of night to snip her dark messy hair short.
She wondered, as she curled up in her cupboard, if Vernon and Petunia would have loved a niece who was pretty instead of scrappy, who had soft hands and never burned the bacon at breakfast.
Series
- Part 7 of boy with a scar
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 8,898
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 6
- Comments:
- 211
- Kudos:
- 8,638
- Bookmarks:
- 1,054
- Hits:
- 97,868
Bookmarked by ghostwriterwitch
11 May 2026
-
the family evans by dirgewithoutmusic for darkersoltice
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
01 Jan 2015
Tags
Summary
What if, when Petunia Dursley found a little boy on her front doorstep, she took him in? Not into the cupboard under the stairs, not into a twisted childhood of tarnished worth and neglect—what if she took him in?
Petunia was jealous, selfish and vicious. We will not pretend she wasn’t. She looked at that boy on her doorstep and thought about her Dudders, barely a month older than this boy. She looked at his eyes and her stomach turned over and over. (Severus Snape saved Harry’s life for his eyes. Let’s have Petunia save it despite them).
Let’s tell a story where Petunia Dursley found a baby boy on her doorstep and hated his eyes—she hated them. She took him in and fed him and changed him and got him his shots, and she hated his eyes up until the day she looked at the boy and saw her nephew, not her sister’s shadow. When Harry was two and Vernon Dursley bought Dudley a toy car and Harry a fast food meal with a toy with parts he could choke on Petunia packed her things and got a divorce.
Series
- Part 4 of boy with a scar
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 3,529
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 32
- Comments:
- 1,052
- Kudos:
- 32,172
- Bookmarks:
- 6,726
- Hits:
- 266,927
Bookmarked by ghostwriterwitch
10 May 2026